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HANSARDTopical QuestionsThat is just plain wrong.03 Sept 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe are determined to ensure that we have high-quality housing available, including social housing for rent, and that people have the opportunity to buy their own home. There is no…03 Sept 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe recognise the value of parents continuing in education, which is why there are often available mechanisms such as the childcare grant and the parents’ learning allowance. As I…03 Sept 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsIf the hon. Gentleman will provide me with some more details of his constituent’s case, I would be happy to make sure it is looked into by Ministers and that he receives a full…03 Sept 2025HANSARDSEND Provision: FundingMy hon. Friend is a powerful champion for his constituents and for Blackpool, and he is right that far too many children are not currently getting the support they need in order…21 Jul 2025HANSARDSEND Provision: FundingI am grateful to my hon. Friend that important question. Labour is providing £1 billion more for high-needs budgets, and also providing councils with £740 million of capital…21 Jul 2025HANSARDTeacher RecruitmentThat was very shouty from the shadow Minister, and as per usual very negative about what we are seeing across education. We are turning around the problems that the Conservatives…21 Jul 2025HANSARDSEND Provision: FundingI will happily write to the right hon. Gentleman in relation to his constituency case. We are looking carefully at all the proposals we inherited when we came in as a new…21 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThis Labour Government are delivering the teachers that are desperately needed right across our schools. We were left behind a terrible crisis when it came to recruitment and…21 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsLike the hon. Gentleman, I welcome the hard work of our teachers, leaders and support staff, and I am always pleased to hear about improvements in standards. This Government are…21 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThere are 60,000 fewer children in primary schools this year. I know the right hon. Lady was at the Treasury, so I would expect a bit more when it comes to her maths. It would be…21 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsWith your permission, Mr Speaker, I would like first to address last week’s tragic incident in Minehead. I am sure that all Members will join me in offering support and prayers to…21 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am not quite clear what the right hon. Gentleman is driving at with that question. What I have said in response to the very sharp decline in the birth rate is that as a…21 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsIf the hon. Gentleman would write to me, I will look into that further.21 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am grateful to my hon. Friend for the work he has done in this area over many years and for the way he champions this cause here on behalf of his constituents. I can confirm…21 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI join my hon. Friend in condemning those remarks. I am aware that the Reform UK leader said, in similar comments, “I’m not being heartless, I’m being frank”. Well, I will be…21 Jul 2025HANSARDTeacher RecruitmentWith the summer holidays just around the corner, I want to say a huge thank you to everyone working across education for all their hard work this year. Improving the quality of…21 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe have heard this afternoon from my hon. Friend and so many Members across the House about the urgent need to make improvements for children with SEND. We are laying the…21 Jul 2025HANSARDTeacher RecruitmentI give my hon. Friend that assurance and thank him for all the work he does for schools right across his constituency. Recruiting and retaining more teachers—particularly in the…21 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Gentleman will appreciate that universities are independent institutions that are able to make their own decisions around financial management. As a Government, we have…21 Jul 2025